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The irony is that the statue is being guarded by the London police.

I built a bit torrent extension for Cockpit. it was pretty fun building software for it

The Unicode can be ridiculous at times. It contains a character used once in a single manuscript in a extinct language, but not a standardized glyph for an external URL link.

Also would the world be a better place if they gave it back to some third party, so it can be sold to a private collection and be locked in a vault somewhere? Where it is now has a…

Webp is something you can push into production today: https://caniuse.com/?search=AVIF%2CWEBP however AVIF only has about 65% market penetration. If you ran a serious webserver, it…

I've often felt that English is a prime candidate for spelling reform. Being the modern lingua franca it makes sense to remove the unneeded vestigial remnants of other languages th…

It seems the article you're talking about is the opponent color process, which here's some great articles about it: https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color2.html https://blog.asmart…

I highly recommend reading Human color vision / Peter K. Kaiser and Robert M. Boynton. It's a great read if you've gone down the color vision rabbit hole as it has nearly every sin…

Tailwind is great, but ironically it is full circle in regards to OP's post. You describe the page structure in HTML using classes, much the same before CSS was a thing. This is id…

NASA could have built two or more as backups, as most of the cost was in R&D it would have been (comparably) cost effective to do so.

People like to use the term free market to describe the optimal market system, but that's pretty lousy terminology. The truth is, functioning markets are not "free" at all. They ar…

Kitset houses are cheaper and better. These sorts of projects hide where the real cost of construction is. Land, foundations, electrical, council permits, drainage, plumbing, telco…

There's a great passage about this in Genome by Matt Ridley, which is a great book for anyone interested. In mammals both the male and female gametes imprint their DNA in their sex…

The NZ govt did a good job with their version: realme.govt.nz While proving your identity was easy, they've had trouble achieving the next step of information sharing. Traditionall…

The verify email process has a link to go to your email provider. that's slick.

I wish them luck with the rewrite, but those sorts of rewrites are usually just replications of Apple's Copland. I suspect these sorts of rewrites are attempts at capturing the zei…

Immunor & St Georges University of London released a paper outlining evidence that SARS-CoV-2 Spike was artificial. The paper was criticised for going against the popular narrative…

with tools like this: https://github.com/tancredi/fantasticon using font icons is pretty easy to use. The biggest issue I found with font icons was getting upskilling new devs. onl…

Plastic recycling by and large is a farce. The majority of all "recycled" plastics in western countries winds up being exported to developing nations who then extract a tiny percen…

There's clear evidence of epigenetics playing a role in brain activity, though these are more linked to hormonal responses such as stress. It's also been proven that RNA transcript…

>France has 70% nuclear Not for long sadly :( Government policy is to reduce this to 50% by 2035.

American Superconductor sells wire for $200 per kiloamp per metre. It would worth it getting a lighter superconducting cable given it wouldn't need cooling.

I would recommend looking at the PSIO if you're wanting to mod a PSX today. It's a bit on the expensive side, but it allows you to insert a SD card instead of having to use CDs. Ov…

Yes, what I was alluding too was that new tooling tends to make it easier for client resources to explode out of control. Don't get me wrong, jsx is great. but it should be used in…

The culture change around the importance of performance is frustrating, new developers all seem to love their massive JavaScript libraries. Giving a trivial function such as search…